If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Jeep Wrangler is thankfully more a indicator of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Jeep Wrangler can come from accumulated dirt, the issue can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.
Noise in the trunk Jeep Wrangler : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Jeep Wrangler induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Jeep Wrangler, examine the condition of the gasket that goes around the entire tailgate and clean it with a wet/soap cloth, dry the whole thing and try to close the trunk and take a dentred road to see the improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Wrangler that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Jeep Wrangler.
Noise in the trunk of my Jeep Wrangler : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Jeep Wrangler is very often related to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is sufficient to resolve the problem. Secondly, it is also possible that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which circumstance you would have to take out the cover that allows access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Remember to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Jeep Wrangler closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Jeep Wrangler : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released the license plate. Unfortunately, it can happen that part of the rivet falls into the hole of the bumper and it will therefore wander inside the bumper and can induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Wrangler linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your case, you will have to remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more problematic case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
